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Stays
Wedding corset
Stays
American
1839
Object Place: USA
Medium/Technique
Cotten sateen with cording and quilting and bone eyelets
Dimensions
Overall: 25 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 34 1/4 in. (64.8 cm, 97.99 lb., 87 cm)
Overall (measured flat overall for storage, with straps up): 57 × 52.4 cm (22 7/16 × 20 5/8 in.)
Center back: 38.1 cm (15 in.)
Center front: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
Overall (measured flat overall for storage, with straps up): 57 × 52.4 cm (22 7/16 × 20 5/8 in.)
Center back: 38.1 cm (15 in.)
Center front: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Misses Mildred and Margaret Allen
Accession Number51.1959
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionA wedding corset or pair of stays made of white cotton sateen, not boned, but reinforced areas quilted with yellow silk in back stitch through sateen face and heavy cotton twill lining fabric; casing in center front for busk; laced in center back through ivory or bone eyelets, same eyelets for lacing strap extending from back over shoulder to front, in ink on center front: Ann P. Watson. Made by Ann Priscilla Watson.